After the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has become the latest cricketer to own a football team in the high-profile Indian Super League, investing in the Chennaiyin FC ahead of the event starting October 12.
Di Maria to retire from international soccer after World Cup
An ambitious project to awaken a sleeping giant of Asian soccer looks like confirming Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's famous remark that India pricks up its ears only when comparisons with China are made. With China embarked on a multi-billion dollar mission to become a soccer superpower by 2050, India looks set to follow suit with its own plan to raise its status in the game to match its burgeoning economic power. Come October, India, most famously described as soccer's sleeping giant by former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, will launch a programme to engage more than 11 million children in soccer-related activities.
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From Sania Mirza to Virat Kohli, even the likes of Virender Sehwag has shown that swagger on the runway.
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'Project Big Picture' called for the biggest six clubs in the Premier League, along with three other long-term members, to be given 'special voting rights' that would effectively put them in command of the world's most commercially successful league -- and leave the rest as second-class passengers.
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Although they won their first round group, there was little evidence to back up their self-confidence as they stuttered through
'To the youth, I will say work hard. One minute of work will not get you anything. I have worked hard for the past 20 years, 2002 was the first time I won a gold medal.'
Spain go into Friday's Euro 2016 game against Turkey determined to be more efficient in front of goal and no fan is more eager for that to happen than Antonio Banderas. The 55-year-old Spanish actor and director, a fervent supporter of his home club Malaga and of the national team, posted a photograph on his Twitter feed on Friday of himself in the Spanish team kit and ready to volley a football.
Kate Winslet won her second Emmy for playing the role of Detective Mare Sheehan in Mare Of Easttown.
Former world champions Spain will have to wait to regain their past glory but they need not discard their attractive brand of football that earned them fans and laurels, World Cup-winning defender Joan Capdevila told Reuters in an interview.
The 39-year-old appeared at Italy's Sanremo festival in March, where he sang a duet with Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic and said he would like to try acting.
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France's probable starting line-up for World Cup final
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Openly backing the ISL as the country's elite competition for the first time, the Indian FA (AIFF) said its recommendation was based on the Master Rights Agreement it signed in 2010 with its commercial partners Football Sports Development Limited.
Mexican side Necaxa have been forced to move their Libertadores Cup tie at home because their stadium is to be used for a concert by pop star Shakira.
Aditi and Akshay Maliwal are mentoring young sports athletes from Asia to get through to top US universities.
8 Thai boys were brought out of the over the first two days.
Valverde said he was concerned about the team's away form after they were comprehensively beaten 2-0 by promoted Granada
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who is a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club World Cricket Committee, will skip its upcoming meeting at Lord's on August 11-12.
According to Jhingan, not being able to play in the ISL or international matches would have been more frustrating for him.
A striker always remains a striker is what David Trezeguet showed when he rolled back all those years with an opportunistic strike to help FC Pune City register their maiden win beating FC Goa by 2-0 in the Hero Indian Super League on Sunday.
Here's what you must know about the youngest scorer, youngest hat-trick scorer, youngest final player and youngest final scorer in football World Cup history.
Lionel Messi said on Wednesday he was delighted to have signed for French club Paris St Germain and that he is ready to help the team clinch their first ever Champions League title.
Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after a court in Barcelona found him guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a statement from the court said on Wednesday.
Star-studded Mohun Bagan's I-League-winning players have threatened to approach the All India Football Federation if their dues, withheld owing to the coronavirus pandemic, are not cleared at the earliest. Unable to pay salaries to their players, including foreign recruits, Indian club football heavyweights Mohun Bagan have asked them to wait till the restrictions imposed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic are lifted.
Maradona was a uniquely gifted player who rose from the tough streets of Buenos Aires to reach the pinnacle of his sport.
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Nigerian Ranti Martins scored three goals to help beat Sporting Clube-de-Goa in the 12th round of the ONGC I-League tournament on Sunday.
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Having performed his mother's shraddh ceremony, one of the stars of Indian Super League is now arranging oxygen cylinders, supplying food as a "frontline warrior" for his local club "Atlanta", located in South Kolkata's Golf Road region.
Bhumi Pednekar and Konkona Sen Sharma's ode to sisterhood, Robert Pattinson's amusing accent, Satyajit Ray's many masterpieces, Steven Soderbergh's breakout indie, Mark Ruffalo's good fight -- all this and more on Sukanya Verma's recommendation list on OTT this week.
Images from the English Premier League matches on Saturday.
The Danish DBU football association tweeted that the Eriksen was 'awake and at Rigshospitalet for further examinations'
The 92nd Academy Awards nominations have been announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
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Ambani's holding group launched the Indian Super League, an elite competition of newly created teams, in 2014 with the aim of attracting investment and big global names, much like the Indian Premier League has in cricket. 'It was 100% a wasted opportunity'.
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